On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:39:42 +0800
Kacheong Poon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> > That and debugging seem like reasonable uses for LLA.
>
>
> I am wondering how it helps in debugging. So suppose the
> machine has one interface and is plugged in but it cannot
> get any address somehow. Why does having a LLA help? If
> that helps, I suppose assigning a, say 192.168.x.x, will have
> the same effect. Debugging already implies human interaction.
> So the automatic part of LLA should not matter. Right?
You can "simulate" having LLA support by assigning an address by hand.
But then if that is how LLA is done then you never get to the stage
where enough nodes on a segment will have LLAs to make it useful, no?
Thats not to say that you can't look at traffic and guess at an
address. DAD keeps you from making too big a mess when doing this type
of thing.
mph
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